Carolly Erickson, who has written several Tudor non-fiction books, has written a novel about Katherine Parr called The Last Wife of Henry VIII. It is available for pre-order in the US (left) and the UK (right) and will be published in October:
Next Podcast will be a Two-fer!
Hello all!
I’m not going to be able to get a podcast finished by the end of August, so I’m going to do both August and September together in one. Look for it in about 3-4 weeks!
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New Book on Katherine Swynford
I’m sure some significant fraction of Tudor History fans have read about Katherine Swynford, mistress and third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. She was the mother of the Beaufort children, whose decendents include Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and the origin of his claim to the throne. Probably most people are familiar with Katherine through the 1950s novel Katherine by Anya Seton, so it is nice to see a non-fiction book on her. There have been some others in the past (that managed to sneak by me!), but below are links at Amazon.uk and Amazon.com to the newest: Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress
by Jeannette Lucraft (please note that Amazon has Ms. Lucraft’s name spelled incorrectly)
Think you are related to Henry VIII?
I got this message through the Pen Pal page, but I think the blog is a better place for it:
Dear Tudor fans,
If you know anyone, from any walk of life, who claims to be a descendant of Henry VIII, and would agree to be filmed in a documentary, please ask him or her to contact me at:
Thank you.
Tallisman
Back from vacation, updates coming soon
Hello all! I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m back and I’m still catching up on email and news articles. I should have some news up tomorrow or the day after. And for those of you expecting email replies, they will be coming by the end of the week, I promise!
On vacation July 30 to August 20
I’ll be on vacation for the next three weeks. I’ll have access to the internet on and off so I’ll probably be able to post any interesting news articles that show up, but there might a delay.
I’m hoping to write and and post pictures over on my personal blog, if anyone is interested.
TudorCast #3 Now Posted
The July 2006 episode of TudorCast is now up!
TudorCast #3 – July 2006
Show notes:
Additional recommendation on last month’s featured website:
Beginner’s Latin tutorial from the UK National archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/
Website of the month: Castles of Wales http://www.castlewales.com
Music by La Primavera
Update: In 2009, in an interesting and convincing article in The New Criterion by Leanda de Lisle, it is argued that the Spinola account of Jane Grey’s appearance is a fake. So, the “text” portion of this podcast probably not an authentic primary source text.
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First Civil Partnership in Birmingham, England – Tudor Themed!
From the article:
James and Brynn Tudor have made history by becoming Birmingham’s first gay couple to tie the knot and form a civil partnership.
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As soon as we first heard that the government was considering the legislation, so many months ago, we began making plans. I myself already had an idea of how I wished our ceremony to look and after talking it through with Brynn it was decided that we would have a Henry VIII and his six wives theme.
Be sure to check out the cake too!
Spam email issues
Hopefully nobody who reads this site or blog will be getting any of these, but I just wanted to let everyone know that a spammer is spoofing my domain name with made-up names before the @tudorhistory.org part. The only email addresses that I send from are tudorhistory@tudorhistory.org or lara@tudorhistory.org. Anything else is not legit.
Now to go continue deleting the hundreds of spam blocker replies that are currently flooding my email…
Update: It looks like it has tapered off, for now. Whew… 100+ emails a minute is just a little more than I’m used to. 🙂
Scarlett Johansson to play Mary Boleyn
This has been floating around as a rumor for a while, but Variety is reporting today (and many other news sources are quoting them) that Scarlett Johansson has indeed been cast to play Mary Boleyn alongside Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn and Eric Bana as Henry VIII.
Here are a few of the news articles:
Johansson in Tudor love triangle – The Guardian
Johansson Joins The Other Boleyn Girl – Comingsoon.net
Scarlett Johansson is The Other Boleyn Girl – Movieweb
(some original links have expired and have been removed)
New Tudor Humor submission
Courtesy of Kelly Rogers — Tudor Haikus!
Thanks for the submission Kelly!
“Elizabeth I” nominated for 13 Emmys
From The Guardian:
Channel 4’s Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren as the virgin queen, has scooped 13 nominations at this year’s prestigious Primetime Emmys, in what could be a bumper year for UK productions.
Full article (including a link to all the nominations)
At the risk of revealing what a nerd I am, it was interesting to see Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson nominated in the same category. When Gillian Anderson won her Emmy for her role as Scully in the X-Files, Helen Mirren presented it to her. I recall Gillian remarking about how honored she was being presented the award from Helen Mirren, whom she admires. Now they are both nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Mini Series!
Holbein fails to sell at Sotheby’s auction
Just a follow-up on a post from a few month ago:
Holbein’s 1542 medallion-style “Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger,” son of Henry VIII’s treasurer, was offered by London dealer Christopher Gibbs for as much as 3 million pounds. It drew no bids.
Full article
(original links have expired and have been removed)
Student portraying Elizabeth I wins history prize
The winner of the 2006 U.S. National History Competition, 16-year-old Timmia Feldman from Lawrence Kansas performed as Elizabeth I to grab the first prize. You can read all about it and see a photo of Ms. Feldman in costume from the Lawrence Journal-World.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Photos from “The Tudors” TV series
ShowBiz Ireland has posted some photos of several of the actors in costume for their roles in “The Tudors”, currently filming for the US channel Showtime. Above are Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a young Henry VIII.
An Elizabethan Day Out
Folks in England in July will have a chance to experience Elizabethan life in Cornwall:
Experience Elizabethan life with the Newman family.
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New TudorCast episode now posted
The June 2006 episode is now up at the podcast blog. Enjoy!
(the podcast site has been discontinued and all of the posts have been migrated to this blog and are available under the
Oooops!
Apparently I was more tired than I realized when I was recording the podcast last night… I completely forgot to mention that if you wanted to submit feedback on the podcast, please leave comments at tudorhistory.org/podcast (this page, but comment on the post for the podcast episode).
I was also going to mention the neat Latin tutorial at the National Archives, which you can visit here.
Hopefully I’ll remember anything else I may have forgotten. 🙂
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TudorCast #2 – June 2006
Show notes:
Website of the month – UK National Archives Palaeolography tutorial http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
All music in this episode is by the group La Primavera.
You can listen to the complete tracks, as well as the other tunes on this album, at Magnatune.com
Opening/introduction music: Excerpt from “Greensleeves”
Between the News Recap and the Website of the Month: Excerpt from “Wolsey’s Wilde”
Between the Website of the Month and This Month in Tudor History: Excerpt from “Volt and La Primavera”
Between This Month in Tudor History and Texts from the Tudor Period: another excerpt from “Greensleeves”
Closing music: Excerpt from “Oxenford”
Lyrics to “Pastime With Good Company” (these aren’t exactly the same as the lyrics in the song in the podcast, but pretty close)
Pastime with good company I love, and shall until I die;
Grudge who lill but none deny so this live will I
For my pastance, hunt sing and dance; My heart is set,
All goodly sport, to my comfort, who shall me let?
Youth must have some dalliance, of good or ill some pastance;
Company me thinketh best allthoughts and fancies to digest;
For idleness is chief mistress of vices all:
Then who can say but mirth and play is best of all?
Company with honesty is virtue sure; and vice to flee,
Company is good or ill, but every man has his free will.
The best I sue, the worst eschew; My mind shall be
Virtue to use, vice to refuse, I shall use me.
Amazon links to “Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting”
(original links have expired and have been removed)
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